Spark Artist

Luke Wyland is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and cultural organizer based in Portland, Oregon. As a person who stutters, his practice is rooted in disability justice and the rich terrain of speech diversity. In collaboration with the nonprofit SPACE, he curates the Library of Dysfluent Voices, a first-of-its-kind living archive that reimagines stuttering as a generative, expressive mode of communication. His forthcoming multimedia installation A Person Ssspeaking (2027) at Oregon Contemporary Museum expands the Library into an immersive experience of audio-visual voice portraits of people who stutter, illuminating both the audible and invisible dimensions of dysfluency and inviting new ways of listening. Over the past 20 years, he has released critically acclaimed records with the groups AU and Methods Body, as LWW, and under his own name, working with labels including New Amsterdam, Beacon Sound, Balmat, The Leaf Label, and Aagoo Records. His performances have been presented at the Whitney Museum, Ecstatic Music Festival, Issue Project Room, PICA’s Time-Based Arts Festival, End of the Road Festival, and Les Nuits Botanique, among others.